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Ruya Shop: Dimitri Kirsanoff’s Menilmontant (1926)

This weekend, the Ruya Shop is screening the film Menilmontant (1926) by Dimitri Kirsanoff The Russian filmmaker Dimitri Kirsanoff emigrated to Paris in the 1920s and became involved in cinema by playing the cello in the orchestra at film screenings. His inexpensive experimental films, made alone without a production company, were important contributions to the…

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Ruya Shop: Fouad El Khoury’s Welcome to Beirut (2005)

This week the Ruya Shop is screening the film Welcome to Beirut (2005) by Lebanese artist Fouad El Khoury. “Welcome to Beirut is about daily life: driving in the city, going to the hairdresser, discussions with the grocer, visiting a motor show, a wax museum, dining out. […] More ironic than sarcastic, the film reveals…

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Tamara Chalabi and Paolo Colombo speak at the ‘Conversations on Art’ symposium in New York

Tamara Chalabi and Paolo Colombo, co-curators of ‘Archaic’, the Iraq Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale, have been invited to speak at ‘Conversations on Art’ a symposium presented by the Global Fine Art Award (GFAA) and K&L Gates on 8 March 2018 in New York. The Iraq Pavilion was named a Finalist for GFAA in the ‘Best Public Art…

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‘The Culture of Violence’: March Cartoon

The Baghdad-based cartoonist Khudair Alhimyari’s series on culture and Iraq continues. This month’s theme addresses Iraq’s culture of violence. Toy Shop Practical Life Experience In the cartoon below, a man reads a book entitled The Culture of Violence. In the cartoon below, a parent tells his child “I’ve told you a hundred times not to…